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Bluff and Hot Springs; and the Massard Prairie, Alma, and KiblerWilliams gas fields supply Fort Smith and vicinity with an abundance of cheap fuel.

The transportation systems of the State are well developed, both in the Coastal Plain and Arkansas Valley regions.

Value of Arkansas Clay Products, According to U. S.

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Value of Arkansas Clay Products According to Severance Tax

Figures

Year

Quantity

Value

1923 (second, third, fourth quarters) 55,789.50 cubic yards

73,058.00 tons

$ 5,112.54 787.81

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Location of Various Types of Clays

The following list designates specifically the location of the various types of clay found in Arkansas. The list was derived from: 1. Bulletin 624, U. S. Geological Survey, "Useful Minerals of the United States," 1917.

2.

Bulletin 351, U. S. Geological Survey, "The Clays of Arkansas," by J. C. Branner, 1908.

Ball or Paper Clay

Pike County.

Brick Clay

Arkansas County, common brick made from red surface clay at Stuttgart.

Ashley County, alluvial buckshot clay used for common brick at Hamburg.

Benton County, pits in residual red clay used for common brick at Bentonville, Rogers and Siloam Springs.

Boone County, at Harrison.

Bradley County, at Warren.

Carroll County, common brick made from residual clays at Berryville and Green Forest.

Clark County, common brick made from alluvial clay at Arkadelphia and Gurdon; common brick, fire brick and drain tile from Tertiary clay at Whelen Springs.

Clay County, common brick made from red clay on Crowley's Ridge at Rector. Piggott and Pratt.

Cleburne County, alluvial clay used for common brick at Heber Springs.

Cleveland County, pressed brick made at Kingsland.

Columbia County, surface clays used for common brick at Magnolia and Waldo.

Craighead County, common and pressed brick made from clays of Crowley's Ridge at Jonesboro.

Cross County, loess and surface clay on Crowley's Ridge used at Wynne.

Drew County, alluvial and leached buckshot clays used near Monticello for common brick.

Faulkner County, buckshot clays used at Conway.

Garland County, alluvial and residual clays and Carboniferous shales used for common red brick at Hot Springs.

Greene County, pressed and common brick made from reworked loess at Paragould, and from loess at Gainesville.

Hill.

Hempstead County, surface clay used at Hope, Doyle, and Spring

Hot Spring County, alluvial clay used for common and pressed brick at Malvern; white plastic clay for white front and paving brick at Malvern.

Howard County, common brick clay at Nashville.

Independence County, red surface clay for common brick at

Batesville.

Jefferson County, alluvial and surface clays used at Pine Bluff and Redfield.

Lawrence County, surface clay used for common brick at Walnut Ridge; yellow or reddish clay at Black Rock; residual clay at Imboden.

Lee County, red brick from loess of Crowley's Ridge, at Marianna.

Lincoln County, yellow surface clay used for common brick at Palmyra.

Lonoke County, at Lonoke and Cabot, red surface clay for common brick.

Miller County, Tertiary clays used at Texarkana for pressed and common brick.

Mississippi County, yellow alluvial clay used for common brick and drain tile at Blytheville.

Monroe County, at Brinkley.

Nevada County, at Emmett and Prescott, common brick and building tile.

Phillips County, common brick made from mixture of surface clay and loess at Helena.

Poinsett County, reworked or eroded loess used at Harrisburg for common brick and drain tile.

Polk County, common brick made from residual clay at Mena.
Pope County, residual clay and shale used at Atkins.
Prairie County, red surface clay used at DeValls Bluff.
Pulaski County, surface clay used for common brick at Little

Rock.

Randolph County, at Pocahontas, common and front brick. St. Francis County, brick clay and yellow loess on and near Crowley's Ridge; burns uniform red; used at Forrest City.

Saline County, surface clays used at Benton.

Searcy County, residual clays used for common brick at Marshall and Leslie.

Sebastian County, Carboniferous shales used at Fort Smith and Mansfield for common and paving brick; alluvial clay near Fort Smith burns light red, soft brick, re-pressed for front brick, uniform good color.

tile.

Sevier County, surface clay used for common brick near Delmar.
Union County, red surface clay used at Felsenthal.

Washington County, at Prairie Grove, common brick and drain.

White County, argilliceous shales of Round Mountain, suitable for sewer pipe and paving brick; surface clay mined at Beebe, Searcy and Judsonia for common brick.

Woodruff County, surface clay used at Cotton Plant; common brick and drain tile, made from buckshot clay at New Augusta.

Yell County, alluvial and surface clay mined at Dardanelle.

Fire Clay

Clark County, fire brick made from Tertiary clay at Whelen Springs.

Crawford County, disintegrated Carboniferous shales in vicinity of Van Buren makes good yellow ware; used to line kilns at Fayetteville.

Hot Spring County, fire brick made at Malvern and Perla from Tertiary clays.

Ouachita County, at or near Lester, high grade clay which burns gray to reddish brown. The clay is used in place of imported German pottery for crucibles, tank blocks and the like, refractory vessels, for glass works.

Saline County, Tertiary clays used for fire brick at Benton. Occurs also in Conway, Dallas, Franklin, Garland, Hempstead, Johnson, Logan, Pike, Sebastian, White, and other counties.

Kaolin

Dallas County, white kaolin of fair refractoriness outcrops in the Tertiary strata in the southeast quarter Section 10, Township 7 south, Range 17 west, and on Little Cypress Creek.

Garland County.

Hot Spring County.

Lawrence County, at Black Rock and Annieville.

1. Ouachita County, in large quantity in Tertiary strata on Sandy Branch.

Pike County, beds of variable color in the Upper Cretaceous (Bingen sand) outcrop at several places on Saline, Vaughan and Clear Creeks near Delight.

Pulaski County, white pisolitic kaolin in places in Fourche Mountain region, burns white and glazes well.

Saline County, nearly white kaolin, residual from nephelite syenite at Bauxite.

Pottery Clays

Ashley County, Tertiary clays suitable for common pottery, near Hamburg. Pottery clays are also exposed in several places in the deep cuts leading into the Saline River and Bayou Bartholomew.

Bradley County, Tertiary clays at Banks, Alga Bluff, Crawford's Bluff; clay at Johnsonville formerly used.

Calhoun County, pottery clays have been found in practically inexhaustible quantities in the series of outcrops on both sides of Champanolle Creek, along the west side of Moro Creek, and along the larger streams in the hillsides along the upper part of Locust Bayou and on the east side of Bayou Two, near its head. Some few deposits of poorer quality occur along the deep cuts leading into the Ouachita River.

Clark County, Tertiary clays on Copeland Ridge and at Berringer mine near Whelen Springs.

Clay County, Tertiary clays on Crowley's Ridge near Piggott and Greenway.

Cleveland County, deposits of pottery clays are near New Edinburg, Mount Elba and other places.

Columbia County, deposits of pottery clays are near Mount Holly and Magnolia. The following up of the deeper creek beds and the examination of shallow well logs should lead to the discovery of other deposits.

Conway County, clays from which the iron has been dissolved are available for the manufacture of coarse pottery in Conway County. Such clays have been noticed on the second bottom lands. of the Arkansas River, Point Remove, and Cadron Creek.

Crawford County.

Dallas County, clays of excellent quality are abundantly and widely distributed in Dallas County and are easily accessible in practically unlimited quantities. They may be found in the exposures of the Tertiary deposits along the banks of creeks and in cuts.

Drew County, pottery clays have been noticed among the Tertiary beds of Drew County, but the outcrops have not been specifically mapped,

Faulkner County, buckshot clays are abundantly distributed over flood plains of streams and pottery clay very probably exists along

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